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Latest Releases

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest labour market statistics on 18 February 2015. The regional labour market first release - including figures for Scotland - is available here.

*New* The Scottish Government released Headline Statistics from the Annual Population Survey October 2013 to September 2014 on 18 December 2014, available on the Labour Market Statistics Publications page.

The Scottish Government released Local Area Labour markets in Scotland: Statistics from the Annual Population Survey 2013 on 7 May 2014. The full publication is available here and supporting web-tables on the Labour Market Statistics Publications page.

Joint analysis of labour market trends by the Scottish Government and the Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) has been issued here.

Labour Market

This section gives information on how to access statistics relating to the Labour Market.

We produce various publications and briefing papers which relate specifically to the labour market in Scotland. This includes all the latest information on unemployment, employment, economic inactivity, earnings, public sector employment and other labour market based statistics.

Youth Employment briefing papers can also be found on the briefing papers page

Data are available at a variety of geographies: UK, Scotland, Local Authority areas and Parliamentary Constituency areas.

You may browse our Publications or a list of available Data for specific information, or use the High Level Trends below to view a brief overview of some of our key statistics.